ITEM H

Board of County Commissioners · 2026-09-03 · ordinance

This is a legislative item for the Miami-Dade County Fiscal Year 2026-27 Self-Supporting Budget Ordinance. It is a county-wide budget ordinance, not a specific development project. It approves, adopts, and ratifies proprietary budgets, special assessment district budgets, and other budgets for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2026 and ending September 30, 2027. It appropriates all budgeted revenues and expenditures, authorizes investment of county funds in time warrants, authorizes transfer of funds as cash advances, ratifies implementing orders and actions setting fees, rates, and charges, approves the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Pay Plan, authorizes allocations and reallocations of bond proceeds, appropriates grant, donation, and contribution funds, continues the Municipal Services Fund, rescinds Resolution No. R-122A-89 creating a Child Care Center Trust Fund, authorizes a $5,000,000.00 disbursement from the Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) Acquisition Trust Fund to the EEL Land Management Trust Fund, waives various code provisions for FY 2026-27, repeals sections 2-119 through 2-127 of the Code relating to branch offices of auto tag agencies, and supersedes conflicting provisions of prior legislative enactments. The ordinance includes revised implementing orders for rates, fees, and charges for multiple departments including Public Works, Port of Miami, Solid Waste Services, Infill Housing Program Initiative, Florida Department of Health, Aviation Department, Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces, Public Library System, Special Off-Duty Fire Rescue Services, Water and Sewer Department, Animal Services Department, People and Internal Services Department for parking facilities, and People and Internal Services Department Supplemental Longevity Payment Policy. It also rescinds several administrative and implementing orders. The ordinance includes a provision effective January 1, 2027, that no provision of the budget or ordinance shall authorize funding or promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as defined by Chapter 2026-43, Laws of Florida. The status is 'In Draft'.